World Academics - Insights From American Universities (Fall 2007)

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With two semesters of running D-Learning classes, the SF Center has embarked on a new experiment offering Japanese students that chance to hear in-depth about American academia. With the aim of cross-cultural education and career building internationalization, this course is the first eLearning series to be conducted entirely in English.

Towards this, we have invited a cross-section of internationally experienced professors, researchers, graduate or doctorate students to give presentations. These speakers will draw from their wide range of expertise in subjects such as earthquake engineering, biomedical research, technical communication and sociology.

Prof. Michio Tsutsui Associate Professor University of Washington (College of Engineering - Technical Communication) "Technical Communication"

Dr. Nick Sitar Professor University of California, Berkeley (Dept. of Civial & Environmental Engineering) Director Earthquake Engineering Research Center (EERC) "Earthquake Engineering"

Prof. Yoshio Nishi Director Stanford Nanofabrication Facility Research Professor Department of Electrical Engineering "Nanotechnology"

Prof. Raymond Rodriguez Professor University of California, Davis (Biotechnology Program) Director National Center of Excellence in Nutritional Genomics "Biotechnology"

Akiko Iida-Klein Assoc. Professor Columbia University (Clinical Pathology) Chief of the Molecular Biology Unit Regional Bone Center "Medical Science"

Prof. Michael Sadowsky Professor University of Minnesota (Dept. of Microbiology) Co-Director Microbial and Plant Genomics Institute (MPGI) "Microbiology"

Mariko Sasaki Doctoral Student Cornell University (Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences) Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute "Life Science"

Dr. Chikaosa Tanimoto Professor Osaka University (Dept. School of Engineering) "Civil Engineering"

Dr. Hajime Kobayashi Post-Doctoral Researcher Massachusetts Institutes of Technology (MIT) (Dept. of Biology) "Symbiosis Science"

Prof. Hiroshi Fukurai Professor University of California, Santa Cruz (Dept. of Sociology) University of California, Santa Cruz (Dept. of Legal Studies) "Legal Studies & Sociology"

Prof. John Ino Clinical Professor University of California, San Francisco (School of Dentistry) "Dentistry & Bioethics"